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discoStyle of dance music that arose in the mid-1970s, characterized by hypnotic rhythm, repetitive lyrics, and electronically produced sounds. Disco (short for discotheque) evolved largely from New York City underground nightclubs, in which disc jockeys would play dance records for hours without interruption, taking care to synchronize the beats so as to make a seamless change between records. Artists such as Donna Summer, Chic, and the Bee Gees had many hits in the genre, which peaked with the release of the film Saturday Night Fever (1977). Disco faded quickly after 1980, but its powerful influence, especially its sequenced electronic beats, still continues to affect much of pop music. DiscoMicrosoft's lightweight counterpart to UDDI for discovering Web services. Directed more to organizations that want to implement Web services internally, Disco is included in the .NET Framework. See UDDI. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Male sex (2-5), cigarette smoking (6-8), passive exposure to smoke (8), bar patronage, discotheque visits (9), antimicrobial drug use (9,10), kissing (5), and overcrowding (11) have been associated with carriage, and many of these factors are also risk factors for meningococcal disease (12 15). Uncle Moses is himself a semi-retired signboard painter and discotheque decorator, who in his younger days worked in neighboring Cote d'Ivoire. On that date in Cairo, 52 gay men were arrested on the Queen Boat, a popular floating discotheque, and imprisoned for "debauchery"-there being no official law against homosexuality per se in Egypt. |
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